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Train Strike - Free information on what to do in the event of a rail strike. Car sharing database, bus and traffic information.
iRail - Directory of web sites related to UK Railways.
UK Railways - Top level index to the 26 train operating companies in the UK, with links to information relevant to travellers.
London Railway Stations - Description of London railway stations with approximate travel times to other major cities.
Train Links - UK based railway links.
gedrivers.co.uk - A message board dedicated to the opinions of the Drivers and staff of First Great Eastern.
Rail News - The national newspaper for the British rail industry online edition.
Major Stations - Network Rail's official site for the 16 stations it owns and manages, with information about station facilities, job vacancies, newsletters and history.
Christian Wolmar - Christian Wolmar's official website, providing access to transport articles, books and other contributions to the public debate.
Trackwork - UK based rail infrastructure installation and maintenance.
The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Rail I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Rail The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Rail I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Rail Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rail "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Rail "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Rail Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje Rail Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Rail I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Rail The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Rail Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Rail Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein Rail The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Rail It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Rail "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Rail Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Rail You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Rail Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain Rail Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Rail Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Rail Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. 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